Csapó Katalin - Füreder Balázs - Sári Zsolt: Reneszánsz ételek – Ételek reneszánsza Időszaki kiállítás 2008. március–május (Budapest, 2008)

*7 Royal chefs at Nagyszakácsi The political changes of the early 1990s brought on a change of attitude in the hospitality industry and tourism, too. Tourism turned to hitherto undiscovered areas and was seeking new ways. In the early 1990s a number of small villages wished to join the bloodstream of national tourism. Local teachers, artists and intellectuals sought for ways to achieve this, and presented these with success to the hospitality industry and various branches of tourism. Local initiatives led to a movement of rural tourism, such as the Kapolcs and Nagyszakácsi festivals. Nagyszakácsi has since King Stephen I been a royal estate. One third of the south-western part of the intensively cultivated land supplied the queen's household, the rest the king's. The village was first mentioned as "Szakácsi" [szakács means "chef" in Hungarian!] in 1263. Its inhabitants were members of the lesser nobility and were mostly chefs and staff of the royal households. The chefs of the kings of the House of Árpád formed an aristocratic order of their own, having been conferred nobility and estates for their services. They reported directly to the king and were relieved from the duties of paying tax and fief, but were nevertheless obliged to go to war if the need arose. They lived under the rule of a governor in separate chef villages, such as Sása and Szakácsi in Borsod county, and in villages called Nagy64. Ready to serve Külső- and Király-Szakácsi, Szakács-Kölked and Vid in Somogy county which belonged to the estate of the royal chefs. Dynasties of chefs prospered for centuries. The chronicles note that Somogy-county chefs were employed by John Hunyadi, Elisabeth Szilágyi, Ladislas